She also was the original GOP national committeewoman from New Jersey in the early 1920s following adoption of the women's suffrage amendment.

Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.

During the 1920s, the ACLU expanded its scope to also include protecting the free speech rights of artists and striking workers, and working with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) to combat racism.

The couple moved to Paris the following year, where Guiler pursued his banking career and Nin began to pursue her interest in writing ; in her diaries she also mentions having trained as a flamenco dancer in Paris in the mid-to-late 1920s.

The 1920s also saw a major expansion in industry.

Ecology also has developed through contributions from other nations, including Russia's Vladimir Vernadsky and his founding of the biosphere concept in the 1920s and Japan's Kinji Imanishi and his concepts of harmony in nature and habitat segregation in the 1950s.

Increased use of the forward pass encouraged adoption of a narrower ball, starting with changes in the 1920s which enhanced rifled throwing and also spiral punting.

In Kenya, Christian missionaries in the 1920s and 1930s forbade their adherents from practising it — in part because of the medical consequences, but also because the accompanying rituals were seen as highly sexualized — and as a result it became a focal point of the independence movement among the Kikuyu, the country's main ethnic group.

Radio Netherlands, heard worldwide via shortwave radio since the 1920s, is also based here.

" The Spaniards also experienced much trouble with the neighbouring Rif tribes under Abdelkrim al-Khattabi in the early 1920s.

His depictions of legless and disfigured veterans — a common sight on Berlin's streets in the 1920s — unveil the ugly side of war and illustrate their forgotten status within contemporary German society, a concept also developed in Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front.

The development of Russian cinema in the 1920s by such filmmakers as Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein saw considerable progress in the use of the motion picture as a propaganda tool, yet it also served to develop the art of moviemaking.

Other examples include the American Renaissance of the 1820s-60s, referring mainly to literature, and the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, referring mainly to literature but also to music and the visual arts.

( The term “ race hatred ” had also been used by sociologist Frederick Hertz in the late 1920s.

Ragtime also served as the roots for stride piano, a more improvisational piano style popular in the 1920s and 1930s.

The carbon microphone was also used in radio broadcasting and public address work through the 1920s.

Guising also involved going to wealthy homes, and in the 1920s, boys went guising at Halloween up to the affluent Thorntonhall, South Lanarkshire.

William Lyon Mackenzie King, PC, OM, CMG ( December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950 ), also commonly known as Mackenzie King, was the dominant Canadian political leader from the 1920s through the 1940s.

It was followed in 1794 by the celebrated View of the Evidences of Christianity, which was also added to the examinations at Cambridge, remaining on the syllabus until the 1920s.

The 1920s also experienced the rise of the far right and fascism in Europe and elsewhere, being perceived as a solution to prevent the spread of Communism.

: See also Social issues of the 1920s

Some players, especially those who find the 20K excessively heavy for marching, prefer the slightly smaller King model 1250, first made in the late 1920s and also still in production as the model 2350.

The work of Georg Lukács also touches on the nature of literary genres, appearing separately but around the same time ( 1920s – 1930s ) as Bakhtin.

The Indus Valley Civilization is also known as the Harappan Civilization, as the first of its cities to be unearthed was located at Harappa, excavated in the 1920s in what was at the time the Punjab province of British India ( now in Pakistan ).

The first half of the 1920s was a particularly lean period for composing but Ravel did complete successful concert tours to Amsterdam, Milan, London, Madrid, and Vienna, which also boosted his fame.

The orchestra remained Sydney's main orchestra for much of the 1920s, accompanying many artists brought to Australia by producer J. C. Williamson, including the legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz, who donated money to the Conservatorium library for orchestral parts.

Even though by 1922 the RCN had been cut back to 366 men and had paid off its last remaining cruiser HMCS Aurora, the Navy kept two destroyers donated by the Royal Navy, HMCS Patriot and HMCS Patrician, until they were replaced in the late 1920s by two other ex-Royal Navy vessels HMCS Champlain and HMCS Vancouver, and thereby maintained ships in service throughout the lean years.

The village has a sportsfield on Rugby Road donated to the village by Baron Waring in the 1920s.

By the end of the 1920s, Pukerua Bay numbered 100 houses, a small school on land donated by Charles Gray, and a few small stores.

Most of the existing site was purchased by the City of Seattle in the later 1920s, with 20 % donated by Carkeek, following citizen petition over vigorous City opposition.

The Swain Gardens were donated to Ku-ring-gai Council by Mr Swain, a Sydney bookseller, in the 1920s, and are today maintained by the council and volunteers.

During the early 1920s several aero engines were added to the collection, including a 1910 33 hp Wright engine donated by Orville Wright.

In the 1920s, the estate was donated to the trustees of the Warehousemen, Drapers, and Haberdashers, School.

When Onderdonk moved on in 1886, he donated his estate for a girl's school, All Hallows, which became one of the main society schools in the colony and continued in operation into the 1920s.

* 1920s: The land for the seminary is purchased by Bishop Edward J. O ' Dea, using his own personal inheritance, and donated to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle for the purpose of building a seminary for diocesan priests

In the 1920s, the estate of Charles Hermann Goschen, Lord Lieutenant of the City of London, was donated to the trustees of the school.

During the expansion of the Cannon Mills Corporation during the 1920s, James William Cannon donated a piece of land just east of the town for a school.

George V had substantial improvements done during the 1910s and 1920s, including formal gardens to the south of the castle.

Wages, profits, and productivity all made substantial gains during the 1920s.

These countries bought substantial numbers of the Fokker C. V reconnaissance aircraft, which became Fokker's main success in the latter part of the 1920s and early 1930s.

The late 1920s and early 1930s were a time of substantial social and economic unrest in the United States.

Many decades later, Samuel Bronfman founded Distillers Corporation Limited, in Montreal, which enjoyed substantial growth in the 1920s, in part due to Prohibition in the United States.

However, the beginning of the live-ball era in the 1920s created a greater demand for more offense, and third basemen have since been expected to hit either for a high average (. 290 or better ) or with moderate to substantial power.

As the demand for membership always outstrips supply each year ( i. e., there being just over 400 places in 2005 ), there continues to be a substantial waiting list for Full Ordinary Membership, namely 20 years ( although this compares favourably to the 30-year wait which was the norm in the 1920s ).

The general staff in the early 1920s exercised little effective control over the bureaus, but the chiefs of staff gradually gained substantial authority over them by 1939, when General George C. Marshall assumed the office of chief of staff.

For example, the power of classification was used by cities in the 1920s to exclude taxation of electric-powered vehicles because officials believed they did not cause " substantial wear upon the pavements.

The level of political, administrative and cultural autonomy they enjoyed varied with time-it was most substantial in the 1920s ( Korenizatsiya ), the 1950s after the death of Joseph Stalin, and in the Leonid Brezhnev era.

Carnegie was originally part of the City of Caulfield and by the 1920s it had a substantial commercial area.

The first reports of settlements at the present site of Sumgayit were in 1580, when English traveller H. Barrow mentioned Sumgayit in his writings and in 1858, when Alexander Dumas wrote about the area in his memoirs Trip to Caucasus, although nothing substantial was created on the site until the Soviet Union gained control over the area in the 1920s.

The first picture discs of substantial size, sold as records meant only to be looked at and played, not put into a mailbox, appeared in the 1920s.

The Gallery also holds a substantial collection of furniture, textiles, ceramics and glass by Morris ' followers in the Arts and Crafts Movement, which flourished from the 1880s to the 1920s.

While Australian Governments have provided substantial funding for the upgrading of roads, since the 1920s, they have not regularly funded investment in railways except for its own railway, the Commonwealth Railways, later the Australian National Railways Commission, which was privatised in 1997.

In the 1920s, Bemelemans tried to become an artist and painter while working at hotels, but had substantial difficulties.

Labor unrest continued to mount throughout the 1920s and 1930s, however, as the lack of wage and hour rules, child labor protections, unemployment insurance, the right to organize, workplace safety requirements and social security insurance continued to exacerbate the discontents of the substantial numbers of working poor.

Although some preparations may have been dangerous, or worked by a ceremonial or placebo effect, traditional healing systems usually had a substantial active pharmacopoeia, and in fact most western medicines up until the 1920s were developed this way.

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, this program and its companion, the 1926 Army Housing Program, produced well-designed, substantial, permanent buildings and infrastructure at all Army airfields retained after World War I.

While from the middle of the 1920s a substantial number of Anatolian-style songs were recorded in Greece, examples of Piraeus-style rebetiko song first reached shellac in 1931 ( see above ).

One account from the 1920s suggested that Harrison's father owned a substantial estate.

However the 1920s saw substantial and expensive improvements in most facets of the SAR ’ s operations under the leadership of Railways Commissioner William A. Webb.

While, the Australian Government has provided substantial funding for the upgrading of roads, since the 1920s, it has not regularly funded investment in railways except for its own railway, the Commonwealth Railways, which was established in 1911 to build the standard gauge Trans-Australian Railway between Kalgoorlie and Port Augusta, South Australia, and to take over the 1067 mm gauge railways between Port Augusta and Oodnadatta ( used by the old " Ghan ") and the Palmerston and Pine Creek Railway.

The 1920s saw substantial Polish immigration to the area around Archer and Lockwood.